Lottery scam quick guide: it's a scam if...

  • you win any lottery where you didn't buy a ticket! It's really that easy! It's not just too good to be true: it's bait in a trap!
  • you receive a generous grant out of the blue. Sadly (but not surprisingly) there aren't any benevolent people regularly throwing around millions of pounds/dollars/euros to randomly chosen people. This is just the lottery scam without the ticket.
  • they send you partial payment in the form of a cheque, money order, or direct bank transfer and want you to pay them fees out of that money. They're playing you for a sucker: cheques are frequently forged, and direct transfers made by compromising some poor schmuck's online banking service. You'll wind up a victim of fraud, or a party to it.
  • they want you to send them any money of any sort for any reason. They might try to say there are courier fees or taxes to cover. They're lying. Call their bluff and tell them to take the fees out themselves -- they'll never ever agree, because they can't defraud you unless money is making the reverse trip from you to them somehow.

Friday, September 08, 2006

PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION.

From: mail3 <mail3@unixdesk.com>
Date: 08-Sep-2006 17:52
Subject: PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION.



AWARD PRIZE:
CONTACT MR. RAY ADAMS
FROM:LOTOCATALUNYA INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTION PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
CLAIM/REF: KG/1960/30/16





BATCH: 32/932/8JTY/ES
WEBSITE:

WWW.LOTOCATALUNYA.NET


.

Dear Winner,

Following official publication of results of the E-mail
electronic online Sweepstakes organized by the Lotocatalunya
corporation, the lotocatalunya award in conjunction with the
foundation for the promotion of software, (F.P.S.), held on the 2nd of
September 2006 in Madrid-España, where in your electrononic email
address emerged as one of the online winning emails in the 6th
category and therefore attracted a cash award of of ?1.653.000,00Euro
(One Million Six Hundred and Fifty Three Thousand Euros ) Equivalent
in US Dollars $2.125,033.96 USD (Two Million One Hundred and Twenty
Five Thousand and Thirty Three Dollars Ninety Six Cent).

We write to officially notify you of this award and to
advise you to contact the processing office immediately upon receipt
of this message for more information concerning the verification,
processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.
It is important to note that your award information was
released today the 4th of September 2006 with the following
particulars attached to it.

(I) Award Numbers: LCT/05, 10, 28, 33,
45, 48C.47R.0
(ii) Email ticket number: TK390/12/67
(iii) BATCH NUMBER: 32/932/8JTY/ES
(iv) The File REFERENCE NUMBER:: KG/1960/30/16

Please contact our foreighn affairs deptartment within
5 working days to facilitate the release of your prize, You are
required to mention the above particulars of your award in every
correspondence addressed to the foreighn affairs dept.

CONTACT NAME: MR. RICHARD PUYOL
CITY/ COUNTRY: MADRID, ESPAÑA.
FREE SERVICE NUMBER: 0034-618-420-622
OR(011-34-618-420-622)
FAX NUMBER:0034-911-311-745
EMAIL:
foreignaffairs_dept_locatalunya@yahoo.es

The Lotocatalunya Awards is sponsored by a consortium
of software promotion companies.
The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers, Microsoft and other
international companies.
The lotocatalunya internet draw is held periodically
and is so organized to encourage the
use of the internet and promote computer literacy worldwide.

We are proud to say that over 20 Million Euro are won
annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.
Rememer, all winning must be claimed not later than
15th September,2006.

Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch
number in all correspondence.
Once again on behalf of the management and staffs of
LOTOCATALUNYA.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Anna Paco.
Promotions Coordinator

www.lotocatalunya.net

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

i have had the same one sent to me i told them to go to hell but they keep sending more forms to fill out these people are scum!!!

Anonymous said...

I got one of these, of course. I seem to get them all--UK lottery, Danish lottery, and Nigerian scams. I never answer them. I figure all these scummy scammers should be shot out of a cannon over a field of cactus, or perhaps we should return to the old way of doing things. We'll tar and feather them and then run them out of town on a rail, or off the internet anyway.

Anonymous said...

We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to
contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message
for more information concerning the verification, processing and
eventual payment of the above prize to you.It is important to note
that your award information was released today 21?st of February 2008,
with the following particulars attached to it.


(I) The file REFERENCE NUMBER:: GB/451/ 77911/86
(ii) Email ticket numbers: LYA-4461/06/74
(iii) Batch numbers:: 44/012/98861/ESP
(iv) Reference numbers: TL/47830/22/06
(v) Lucky number: 9-13-60-27-39

(vi) Your Full Name & TelephoneNumber.


NOTE: All Winning must be claimed not later than 13?th of March 2008.
Please contact the claim agents for further proceeding:

MR. ALBERTO GOMEZ,
PAYMENT DEPARTMENT MANAGER. LOTOCATALUNYA ESPAÑA:
TEL: 0034-680-700-006

Agent Contact Email: albertogomezoffice1@yahoo.de

Congratulations !!!

Yours Sincerely.
Mrs Benita Mengan,
Promotion co-ordinator.